In the previous posts we build few micro services (Order Service, Product Service, Customer Service) for an order management system using Docker and Spring Boot. We used Netflix libraries to manage, discover and load balance the micro services.

Managing these micro services and their multiple containers could get a bit tricky; especially in terms of Scalability, Observability, Security, Monitoring and managing resources. Hence we would use Kubernetes for our container orchestration. Click here to read more about Kubernetes.

In order to get started, we could either use a local Kube cluster in the laptop or use a cloud provider like AWS/Azure/GCP.

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